Awesome Bookends

Bookends work fine until you try to remove a book. The clever Single Bookstand from Lihit Lab solves the problem of books falling or having to adjust bookends. It uses a series of hinged plastic teeth to keep books upright, even with just a single book in place. The modular stand also holds CDs, DVDs, Blu-rays, and game boxes. Available in various sizes.

Keep your Star Wars book collection organized with these AT-AT bookends from MokuShop. Each walker is hand-assembled from layers of laser-cut wood and painted in a shiny metallic silver. As a bonus, they include a Darth Vader figure with a leash for his Imperial pet. Just keep its legs away from Rebel snowspeeders.

There are lots of kinds of bookends out there, but we rather appreciate the minimalism of roughfusion’s concrete cubes. These 3″ blocks are heavy enough to hold paperbacks upright and look great sitting on any bookshelf. Available in grey, natural, or charcoal.

These metal bookends from Pendulux look like the rayguns that astronauts and aliens might have used to battle each other in a 1950s sci-fi movie. They’re made from cast aluminum, iron, and brass and are perfect for displaying vintage comics, books, and magazines.

If there’s one thing we know about Imperial Stormtroopers in Star Wars, it’s that they’re not very good at their jobs. Perhaps they’d be better at holding up your books instead of defending the Empire. This pair of resin bookends features a duo of white-clad soldiers doing their best to keep your books from falling over.

Mustard’s playful metal bookends make it look like you’ve pierced your collection of books with a samurai sword. The trick to the illusion is that the metal hides inside of the end books, and the faux sword parts hold in place with magnets. They’re perfect for storing your copies of Bushido and The Art of War.

A pirate ship meets its ultimate nemesis with these wooden bookends from MokuShop. They’re perfect for housing books about adventures on the open seas. Each one is laser-engraved with intricate details engraved on its surface, and has a non-slip cork bottom.

Looking for a gift for a musician or audiophile? Check out Fender’s guitar body bookends. Available in Telecaster, Stratocaster and Bass variants, each set of bookends is made from the same materials as the company uses to make its iconic guitars.

Gentle Giant made the Empire classy with these faux marble bookends of Darth Vader and a Stormtrooper. Each bookend stands 6.5″ tall and is made of polystone and hand-painted. They’re built on a 90º angle so you can use them on either side of your shelf.

Wubba-lubba-bookworms! Hold your tomes in place with BoxLunch’s exclusive Rick and Morty Portal Bookends. One half sees Rick running through the familiar green portal while poor Morty is slightly left behind on the other half.

The Ancient Jedi Master uses the power of The Force to keep your collection of sci-fi books from tumbling over on your bookshelf. Hallmark’s single metal bookend might not hold a huge library, but is a cool gift for Star Wars fans. (photo: frmacleod/reddit)

Your books will never fall over again guarded by this pair of human skull bookends from UrbanTradingPost. Each one is made from painted cast iron, and weighs more than 3 pounds. The matte black is our fave, but they also come in white, grey, silver, or gloss black.

Transport your books to the tropical planet Scariff with Gentle Giant’s awesome pair of AT-ACT Walker polystone bookends. The walker measures 9.5″ x 5″ x 12″ when both halves are together. Each pair is hand-painted and individually numbered.

Artist Garth Borovicka hand makes these beautiful and substantial bookends from layers of wood whose rings symbolize the gradual passage of time on our planet, each topped off by a tiny diorama representing varied ecosystems.

The perfect bookend for all your old cowboy books, this cast resin weapon is based on a vintage revolver, embellished with intricate flourishes. Buy two and have an old-fashioned shootout between the ends of your bookshelf.

A pair of bookends made from two-thirds of a skateboard, complete with screws, trucks and wheels. You can also just get the tail. Available in four colors, but strangely, red isn’t currently an option.